"Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die."
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"I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking."
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"Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood."
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"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."
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"It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind."
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"I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company."
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"The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming."
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"If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers."
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"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
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"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."
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"I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys."
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"A drink is shorter than a tale"
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"[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry."
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"I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death."
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"An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work."
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"If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer."
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"Beer is made by men, wine by God."
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"The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'."
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"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
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